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A Bad Wreck
of the constitution may follow in the
track of a disordered system, impure
blood or inactive liver. Don’t run the
riskl Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis
covery is an alterative extract of herbs
and roots that drives out impurities—
acts on the liver.
When you’re debilitated, and your
weight is below a healthy standard, you
regain health and strength by using the
“Discovery.” It builds up the tody.
Mrs. Mary, Watson of 2132 Hubbard St.,
Jacksonville, Fla., said: “When I became run
down I took the ‘Discovery’ and its tonic
elfect was very noticeable from the Cist."
Sold in tablet or liquid form. If your
dealer does not have it, send 65 cents
for the tablets to Dr, Pierce’s Invalids
Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y.
Not Interested
When Carl von Hoffman returned
with thousands of feet of film from
Africa, where, with his movie camera,
he had spent two years studying vari
ous interior tribes, he thought the
stuff might be of financial interest to
the movie people.
He sought out the director of the
“educational” department of one of
the big screen concerns and asked
him if lie was in the market for
especially fine ethnological pictures.
“No,” said the director, “we never
go in for religious stuff.” —Panorama.
Makes Life
Sweeter
Children’s stomachs sour, and need
an anti-acid. Keep tlieir systems
sweet with Phillips Milk of Magnesia!
When tongue or breath tells of acid
condition —correct it with a spoonful
of Phillips. Most men and women have
been comforted by this universal
sweetener —more mothers should in
voke its aid for their children. It is a
pleasant tiling to take, yet neutralizes
more acid than the harsher things too
often employed for the purpose. No
should be without it.
Phillips is the genuine, prescrip
tional product physicians endorse for
general use; the name is important.
“Milk of Magnesia” has been the U. S.
registered trade mark of the Charlei
H. Phillips Chemical Cos. and its pre
decessor Charles H. Phillips since 1875.
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r. Milk
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Their Mistake
“Where’s your nfew license?” de
manded the officer, eyeing the 1928
plate.
“Why, officer, we’re just on the way
to the courthouse now to get it,” ex
claimed the grass widow and widower
in the car, with one voice.
Two Species
What is described as a walking fish
from Africa has been brought to Bos
ton on a visiting ship. Humorists may
now do their worst in comparing the
peripatetic fish from overseas with
the poor fish who already walk Bos
ton streets. —Boston Transcript.
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VOODOOISM OF MANY
CULTS GRIPS CUBA
Find Right Cat Bone and
You Are Invisible.
Havana, Cuba. —Mystic voodoo riles
practiced in many parts of the United
States have been linked by recent in
vestigation with the cult of Nanigoism
in Cuba.
Comparative analysis of African
sacrificial customs have furnished un
usual evidence that both had a com
mon origin in the Congo jungles and
that voodooism reached the American
continent by the importation of slaves
from Cuba and Haiti.
“Obeah," a mild form of voodooism.
is practiced in Cuba and the British
West Indies with virtually identic
ceremonies. Negroes who came to la
bor in Cuban sugar cane fields have
brought to this Spanish-speilking is
land not only the Obeah but also the
far more terrible and sanguinary rite
of Nnnigo. The high priests and
priestesses of these cults have shown
great powers of resistance to tlie sup
pressive measures of the police.
Cuba inis dealt severely with voo
dooism, and it is believed that its more
ghastly forms have been eliminated.
It was largely in connection with the
government's campaign against Obeah
ism and Nanigoism that measures
were adopted curtailing the immigra
tion of illiterate workers from Haiti
and Jamaica.
Takes Criminal Aspect.
Cuba has been particularly con
cerned because voodooism here takes
on a criminal aspect entirely exclu
sive of the possibility of human sacri
fice. In Oricnte province, which lies
nearest Haiti, the voodoo priests of
that island wield large powers. In
other parts of the island Nanigoism is
dominant among the negroes who take
their religion in this form.
Nanigoism is a combination of devil
worship and gang spirit. Its priests
promise occult powers to law break
ers, and members of this cult are
pledged to render all possible protec
tion and assistance to each other.
As far as can be learned the sym
bolism of the cults is very similar.
All include the sacrifice of roosters,
black cats, goats and other animals.
Cuban police records show cases
where the perpetrators of murder in
connection with voodooism have been
brought to justice, but it is claimed
that this type of sacrifice has been
eradicated.
Havana newspapers continue to
chronicle cases of Nanigo outrages
committed against those who have in
curred the enmity of the gangsters. It
has been found that there is always
someone willing to carry out the
priests’ orders, because a Nanigo
neophyte fails of membership unless
he has one capital crime to his credit.
At Nanigo funerals a black rooster
Is slaughtered in the home of the de
ceased. The fowl is then presented t'
some neighboring non-Nanigo family
as a warning.
Cat Bone Is Charm.
One of the strangest superstitions
in the Haitian cult is that a certain
bone in a black cat’s body will confer
invisibility to its possessor. The rite
takes place in the presence of three
witnesses, and the cat is thrust into
hot water. It is related by voodooists
that supernatural manifestations, such
as thunder and lightning, are an ac
companiment of this process.
In the early years of the Nineteenth
century Jean La Fitte, famous pirate of
the Spanish Main, frequently brought
slaves to Cuba and the United States.
His principal market in the United
States was New Orleans and this fact
is now being used to explain the par
ticularly close similarity between the
voodooism of Cuba and that of the
lower Mississippi valley.
There is a tradition that La Fitte’s
entourage included several African
“conjur doctors.”
The successors of these doctors to
day have considerable knowledge of
herbs and the curative properties of
plant juices. In genera! they are em
ployed to effect cures, but with other
herbs the doctor-priests are said to
be able to cause temporary or perma
nent loss of memory to their enemies.
This belief appears substantiated by
the recent discovery by United States
marines in Haiti of a colony of ne
groes, dazed or hypnotized, working
under their task masters on a plum.,
tion.
Priests frequently claim the power
to take on animal or reptile form.
This recalls the African “leopard” su
perstition where a certain clan were
credited with power to turn them
selves into leopards and prowl the
jungle at night.
Manila Declares War
on 12,000,000 Rats
Manila. P. I.—Bubonic plague has
broken out in parts of India arid China
and tlie Philippine health authorities
have started a campaign against rats,
the principal carriers of the disease.
II is estimated that there is one rat
for every person in the islands, ap
proximately 12,000.000. The chief of
tiie health service issued a warning
that until this number is reduced the
outlook would be dangerous.
Sanitary inspectors are acting as
pied pipers in the ports of Cebu, Iloilo,
Zamboanga, I.egaspi and Davao.
Run Clock* by Radio
Smolensk.—lvan Zlotnikov, a radio
amateur, has invented an apparatus
with the "aid of which he expects to
work and control clockwork mechan
isms throughout the city. The inven
tion has been patented.
THE ROCKDALE RECORD, Conyers, Ga., Wed., Feb. 13, 1929
RUMANIA GIVES
GYPSIES FREEDOM
300,000 Nomads Will Be As
similated by Nation.
Jassy, Rumania. —Three hundred
thousand Rumanian gypsies will l>e
assimilated by Rumania and become
an integral part of the Rumanian
race.
This is one of tiie great social re
forms inaugurated by Dr. Julius
Mnniu, Rumania’s new progressive
premier. Unlike the gypsies of Hun
gary, Czechoslovakia and Yugo-Slavia
who have been granted citizenship in
tiiese countries, the gypsies of Ru
mania are still regarded virtually as
slaves.
Up to 1545 gypsy slave markets ex
isted in Rumania. The price of a
family of gypsies sold as slaves was
about SSO. When the United States
was struggling with the slave prob
lem during the Civil war Rumania
decided to abolish gypsy slavery alto
gether, so that today gypsies are free
to live their own unfettered, nomadic
and primitive lives, where and how
they will.
Rumania’s large gypsy population
is scattered all over the country.
Large settlements of them are to be
found in Moldavia, Walachia and
Transylvania. Like their brother
gypsies in tiie United States, they ply
their trade as tinkers, blacksmiths,
musicians, dance soothsayers and
•horse dealers. Those who cannot
find regular employment live by theft
and mendicancy.
Unlike the gypsies of Czechoslo
vakia or Hungary, who seem to I)e a
superior caste, tiie Rumanian gypsies
live in great squalor and want.
Although they allow themselves to
he baptized in the Christian faith,
they really pursue no religion. Their
old women practice fortune-telling and
are famous for their magic and sleight
of hand.
America Sets Record
in Road Construction
New York. —No nation has ever gone
into road construction at such an
amazing pace ns has the United
States during the last ten years.
Roy D. Chapin, chairman of tiie
highway committee, National Automo
bile Chamber of Commerce, says that
in less than ten years the public has
voted virtually $10,000,000,000 to the
construction and maintenance of
roads, or enough to defray our cost in
the World w#r, excluding foreign
loans.
No public roads improvement in any
era has remotely approximated the
expenditure of these projects, and it
is notable that the feat of raising the
money has been accomplished with
comparative ease.
During the last year four states,
Louisiana, lowa. West Virginia and
Missouri, have voted a total of $240,-
(XX),000 in highway bond issues to fa
cilitate completion of tlieir main state
systems.
New York has more high-type high
ways than any other state, with 11,-
000 miles of hard-surfaced roads. Illi
nois leads in cement pavements, with
6.000 miles, while Indiana has the
largest mileage of all types of hard
surfaced roads.
Two states have already completed
initial improvement of all of their
roads. These states are Maryland and
Delaware.
The Department of Commerce esti
mates that there are 6,500,000 miles
of highways in the world, of which
more than half are in the United
States. When only the improved
roads are considered, the United
States has much more than half.
French Citizen Claims
He Invented War Tanks
Lillg, France. —A man who says he
is the real inventor of the tanks used
during the World war has brought suit
against the state for $600,000 damages
for having communicated the plans of
his invention to England.
M. Parisot de Rupt, who claims to
have invented the war tanks, was man
aging editor of the “Political and Liter
ary Annals” during the war. He has
already protested to the ministry of
war and tiie premier’s office, but hav
ing received no answer has now taken
his grievance to court.
Bobbed Her Age
New York. —Irving Cole is seeking
an annulment on the ground that Ids
bride bobbed her age and not her
hair, in effect. He avers she was
thirty-five instead of twenty-seven, as
represented.
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FIGHT TO PUT SONS
ON VACANT THRONE
Rival Widows Battle for
Crown of Hungary.
Paris, —A hitter, undercover strug
gle is on between two brunches of the
Hapsburg family for the unoccupied
throne of Hungary. Two widows head
the rival factions. Each Is scheming
to place her son on the coveted throne.
The two women are the former Em
press Zita, widow of Emperor Charles,
and the Archduchess Isabella, widow
of Archduke Friedrich.
The sons in whom the two women
have centered tlieir ambitions are the
sixteen-year-old Prince Otto, the
crown prince, and bis thirty-one-year
old cousin, the Archduke Albrecht.
The strife between the two women,
their sons and tlieir factional allies is
just far enough beneath the surface to
keep out of the news.
News Almost Broke.
Two months ago it almost broke In
to the headlines. November 20 was
Prince Otto’s sixteenth birthday. The
“legitimists,” champions of Otto’s
candidacy, have long been chafing with
impatience, and had decided that on
that day they would take destiny in
both hands and proclaim Otto king.
They almost did it. But there were so
many obstacles in the way that cooler
heads prevailed, and the birthday
feast was reduced to the proportion
of a quiet, intimate rejoicing.
True, Hungary, according to iier con
stitution. is a kingdom without a king.
True that Otto is the legitimate heir.
True that monarchists are in control
of the cabinet, that they have a ma
jority in parliament, and tbat they
command the army. Within the conn
try there was little to prevent tli&
legitimists from carrying out tlicii
pri ject. But without, there was the
rub. The peace treaty declares that no
Hapsburg shall accede to tiie Hun
garian throne, and Czechoslovakia,
Poland, Rumania, and Yugo-Slavia are
ready to go to war to see that no
Hapsburg is crowned. Another obstacle
is that Empress Zita, who is fiercely
desirous of making her son a king, has
no money with which to finance tiie
preliminaries. In any case it was de
cided that the time for Otto is not
yet “ripe.”
A Hapsburg May Reign Again.
Give Austria time to merge herself
with Germany. Hope tiiat Croatia
will continue in her mood of seces
sion and in seceding will weaken Yugo
slavia. Let Rumania flounder a
while longer In the confusion of a
weak regency ruling for a six-year-old
king, and the time may come when
even a Hapsburg may be a king again.
Between tiie devil and the deep sea
are the legitimists. If they enthrone
Otto now, the allies will surely de
throne hi", again within a month. If
they do not enthrone him now, 1 lie
rival faction of monarchists may pro
claim, Albrecht the favored candidate,
and may edge Prince Otto out of the
running.
Albrecht, too, has the Hapsburg
handicap. But his mother has plenty
of money. She lias saved almost all
of her great pre-war fortune. His
supporters believe that, though he is a
Hapsburg, he is far enough removed
from tiie direct line not to be abso
lutely taboo. They believe that if tie
were made an elected king the allies,
though they might dislike it, would
not go to war to dethrone him.
Another cousin of Prince Otto has
recently thrown consternation in both
camps with a sensational declaration
that, despite his titles, Albrecht is
not a Hapsburg. He is, according to
this statement, tiie illegimimafe son
of the Archduchess Isabella and a
handsome Hungarian army officer to
whom Albrecht bears a striking re
semblance.
This charge is made by the Arch
duke Leopold, who challenges Al
brecht to prove by a blood analysis
that be is a genuine Hapsburg.
From these bare facts, divested of
the tangle of intrigue which sur
rounds them, it is apparent to tiie
most sluggish imagination that the
vacant throne of Hungary wails un
easily.
Modern Scales Changed
Little From Old Ones
London. —There is little or no dif
ference between tiie scales used today
and those used in the days of ancient
Egypt, judging by an exhibition in the
Science museum, Soutli Kensington,
recently.
illustrating the history of weighing
as fur back as is known, a steelyard
used by a Roman butcher identical to
the present-day “meat purveyor” was
on show.
Modern scales of nickel and enamel,
with multi-colored dials, on which the
weight can be read in an instant, stood
side by side with models showing that
centuries ago Leonardo da Vinci de
signed a self-indicating machine on
exactly the same principle.
Among the sets of standard weights
was one row which had come down
from pre-Norman days and which still
is legal standard in the Channel is
lands. although no longer used.
There were weights of glass and
rock crystal and, in contrast with a
Chinese balance of ivory which would
slip into a vest pocket, were photo
graphs of modern monster weights,
weighing hundreds of tons.
“Sea Serpent” Caught
Noank, Conn. —A real sea serpent
was hauled ashore near here in the
form of a 7%-foot sea eel weighing 27
pounds. It fought 20 minutes and tort
one net to shreds.
For Colds
How many people you know end their colds with Bayer Aspirin!
And how often you’ve heard of its prompt relief of sore throat or
tonsilitis. No wonder millions take it for colds, neuralgia,
rheumatism; and the aches and pains that go with them. The won
der is that anyone still worries through a winter without these
tablets! They relieve quickly, yet have no elfect whatever on the
heart. Friends have told you Bayer Aspirin is marvelous; doctors
have declared it harmless. Every druggist has it, with proven direc
tions. Why not put it to the test ?
j. Aspirin I, ,be triple mark o, Cityrr Mnnnfnrturo
nt UonnarcUraeiiic.tcr of P.llrjilr.rid
Greeks Got Alphabet
From the Phoenicians
Tiie Phoenicians are generally be
lieved to have produced tiie first al
phabet and from tlieir group of sound
symbols have grown all of the alpha
bets in existence today. The Greeks,
it is known, eomposed their alphabet
from (lie Phoenician as a result of
tlieir trade with tiie first sailors. The
Romans took their alphabet from
the Greek and the English alphabet
comes directly from the Latin.
Only minor changes have come down
in the English alphabet from that of
the Romans. Tiie English added tiie
letter “j” for which “i” was used in
tiie T.atin and added “w” to tiie Latin
“uv.”
Probably the best explanation of
tiie Phoenician alphabet’s origin lies
in tiie roving disposition of that poo
plo. Stopping at various ports along
the Mediterranean they adopted cer
tain characters of Hie cuneiform lan
guages of all the countries and adapt
ed them to tlieir own usage.—Detroit
News.
Still Fighting On
President Butler of Columbia, apro
pos of the jibbing of France and
other countries over Secretary Kel
logg’s anti-war past, said at a re
ception :
“War would vanish if mankind real
ly worked against it. If men only
persevered in wise tilings as splendid
ly as they do in foolish ones the mil
lennium would be here next week.
“ ‘Jones is a man of remarkable
perseverance,’ a banker said to me.
“‘Yes?’ said T.
“‘Yes. He’s tried 288 cures for bald
ness in (lie last 19 years, and lie's slill
fighting on as hard as ever.’”
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“Jointing” Logs Easy,
According to Experl
“Jointing” Hip logs in a rustic eabla
isn't “tricky"—if you know how, de
clared Frank K. Brimmer. To illus
trate his remark he proceeds to tell
how it’s done, in an interesting article
in Field and Stream.
All tree logs are not .lust perfect,
he admits, hut the trunks can he laid
butt to top and make a fairly good
wall. On handling them as the waff
goes tip, he says to use tin incline
and a chain. With a steel square, t
sharp ax and a piece of chalk any
man can cut the joints. P.efore saw
ing oue the windows or doors he sutf
gesis that the logs be spiked with t
transverse two-by-four to bold them
in place. A plummeet line helps 61
keep the wall in line, he finds.
The Eternal Feminine
Mrs. William Walker, aged ninety
of Wainfleet, England, is planning
dress with short skirts for he!
eightieth wedding anniversary. SSu
says she approves abbreviated skirt*
for those who have good legs, and
that she has not seen any logs l
Wainfleet recently that are prettier
than hers. t\Jie and her husband,
aged ninety-one, recently celebrated
their seventy-first wedding annlsecs
sary. Walker said lie enjoyed reading
accounts of sprightly young peopl#
celebrating their golden weddings,and
of middle-aged couples holding di*>
mond weddings.
Cause and Effect
Anne —You know, I think Sally ha*
finally married Jack after aIL
Janet —Why? ~/J
Anne —Well, she Is running Around
with Bob all the time now. —Life.
“Through with
the Ring”
but still 100% tit
GENE TUNNEY may have put
off the gloves for good. But he's
too wise a man to give up the price
less habits of physical training that
stood him in such good stead in his
profession.
Just before his last fight, Tunney
said:
“I started taking Nujol internally
seven years ago. The first month
Nujol brought remarkable changes
in my physical condition. My elimi
nation became active and normal.
My appetite increased and a desire
for intensive training was created.
Since that time I have taken Nujol
about five nights a week. I have
regulated myself to the amount neces
sary to keep my elimination normal.
I have found during my seven years"
experience with Nujol that it is not
habit-forming, or in any way un
pleasant or harmful.”
Nujol is not a medicine. It contains
absolutely no medicine or drugs. It
is simply a pure substance —perfected
by the Nujol Laboratories, 26 Broad
way, New York. It not only prevents
an excess of body poisons from form
ing (we all have them) but aids in their
removal. In sealed packages only.
Buy a bottle of Nujol today.